Seaborgium hexacarbonyl
File sealed
The detectives are still writing this one up. The poster and the facts are below; the film and the interrogation room open soon.
Booking photographs
The suspect, from its real atomic coordinates. Drag to turn it. Height chart in nanometers, ruled every 0.05 nm. Mugshot: a computer model. A dime is about twenty-seven million times wider.
Rap sheet
- Answers to
- Sg(CO)6. Seaborgium carbonyl, to friends.
- Height
- 0.65 nm, tip to tip.
- Weight
- 0.71 zeptograms; 0.72 with six more neutrons.
- Build
- An octahedron: one seaborgium, six CO.
- Status
- Zero-valent. The only time seaborgium has been caught below +6.
- Lifespan
- Half gone in under half a second, when the seaborgium inside decays.
- Weakness
- Relativity. Its bonds are weaker than tungsten’s, against the trend.
- Associates
- The molybdenum and tungsten hexacarbonyls. Copies them on silica.
- Last seen
- Sticking to a chilled gold detector, in a lab in Darmstadt.
of them caught in two weeks of firing 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 chromium ions at lead.
You’ve never seen one.
The poster on the street
This is the photocopied wanted poster for Seaborgium hexacarbonyl, No. 133 of the exotic forty. They were made for noticeboards around Boston, Cambridge and the rest of the east coast.
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